Bank holiday

timmywex

in terms of the law, regarding the working time act 1997, is the bank holiday regarded as today (saturday) or on monday??

fatherdougalmag

[url="http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/employment/employment-rights-and-conditions/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays-in-ireland]Any help?[/url]

johnnyskeleton

St Patrick's day is a public holiday
Monday is a bank holiday, it just co-incidentally falls next monday
They are separate.

Regarding St. Patrick's day:
21.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an employee shall, in respect of a public holiday, be entitled to whichever one of the following his or her employer determines, namely—

( a ) a paid day off on that day,
( b ) a paid day off within a month of that day,
( c ) an additional day of annual leave,
( d ) an additional day's pay:

Provided that if the day on which the public holiday falls is a day on which the employee would, apart from this subsection, be entitled to a paid day off this subsection shall have effect as if paragraph (a) were omitted therefrom.

An employer may also designate the next, or the previous chuch holiday in lieu. (see second schedule).

If you knew this was in the Organisation of Work Time Act, 1997, why didn't you just look it up yourself?

In any case, monday, not today, is the bank holiday, but bank holidays don't come into the 1997 Act.

timmywex

i knew all that but just wanted to know if technically, today is still the hioliday or is it on monday and that has been answered, tanx